“We count on our
Traffic Enforcement Agents to be additional eyes and ears for the Department and
to help keep New Yorkers safe. This is a period of historic progress and change
and the new TEAs are now a part of it.”

Traffic
Enforcement Agents are civilian members of the Department. They must pass 12
weeks of training in parking and traffic rules and regulations, intersection
control and ticketing before being assigned to posts throughout New York
City.

Traffic-related
fatalities in New York City fell 15% in 2007 from the year before, registering
the fewest number of vehicular deaths since records were first kept in
1910.